Warren Eagles' Color Tour Podcast

Post NAB 2024 I was invited to the latest Colorist Society Hollywood meet up. Held on the rooftop at the Godfrey Hotel in Hollywood I chatted to a number of top colorists in attendance about how and why they joined the Chapter and what they are currently working on. Topics discussed Mad Max ‘Furiosa’ with Eric Whipp How the Chapter was formed with Lynette Duensing and Troy Smith MTO’s favourite ba...

During my recent trip to the US I caught up with Christopher Young owner and Colorist at See Why Color in Brooklyn. Chris really encouraged me to start the CT Podcast and in 2016 we went to a Brooklyn bar and made some very rough recordings. I said then “When I make the Brooklyn edition, you are my colorist” 7 years later I finally delivered. We chatted in his facility, before moving to a local ba...

The Color Tour Podcast microphone was in London recently to catch up with Thomas Urbye. Thomas is the senior colorist and CEO of the Post House ‘The Look.’ They are responsible for shows like Sex Education, Fleabag, Top Boy and Landscapers. We chatted in the new theatre room at ‘The Look’ before moving to a local Noho bar for a Gin n Tonic. Thomas talks with passion about clients, rival companies,...

The Color Tour Podcast visits Park City in Utah to chat with Crash Carlucci. We ski, then chat about his amazing career that has taken him all over the globe. NYC, LA, Sydney, Milan, and Bangkok before settling in Park City. Crash has some great stories about working at some of the top LA post houses and is proof that it is possible to move around the world as a colorist. Topics discussed Hitting...

The Color Tour Podcast is back with a fantastic YouTube Live chat re the NAB/Colorist Mixer 2023. Intro – Hosts: Warren Eagles, Kevin Shaw, Jeff Greenberg Dado Valentic, Color Lab Mazze Alderhold, Assimilate Bram Desmet, FSI Marcel Gonska, Portrait Displays Jason Rosenfeld, Scenic Labs Andy Knox, Tangent NAB First Timer guests: Colorists CJ Dobson, Mars Williamson from their Melbourne Post House....

The Color Tour Podcast is back with a fantastic live on location Podcast with Kali Bateman in Brisbane, Australia. Her new boutique color shop is in my adopted home town, so only a short drive for me. Kali grew up in a small country town. She progressed from Film School to editing then onto the dizzy heights of grading ‘Elvis’. It’s a great journey that shows that if you want it enough, it’s achei...

It’s great to be back with live on location and in person Podcasts! Whilst in the UK I headed to Brighton to have a long over due chat with Darren Mostyn. His color shop in Brighton on the south coast of England is home for both Online Creative and his home which is a 10 minute walk away. Darren has been colouring for over 20 years but has recently been better known for his Resolve tips YouTube Ch...

It’s great to be back live with one on one on location Podcasts. This is the first ‘real’ chat in nearly 3 years! Born very near the pub where we chatted, Rebecca Goodeve has a ton of varied experience for someone so young. She has worked at both large and boutique post houses, graded freelance and built her own boutique post house in Leigh on Sea. It’s an interesting journey that began by knockin...

Dave Hughes is an old school film colorist who worked all over Europe before returning to Ireland to run a Baselight at Windmill Lane in Dublin.

Season 3 of the Color Tour Podcast has been renamed ‘Not on Tour.’ I cannot travel so the CT Podcast is being conducted on ZOOM. I recently chatted to one of Africa’s leading Color Graders Bobola Oniwura He studied Architecture so calls himself the ‘Accidental Colorist’ Having moved away from designing houses he co founded a Creative Agency with friends and worked as the Creative Director. Their a...

Season 3 of the Color Tour Podcast has been renamed ‘Not on Tour.’ I cannot travel so the CT Podcast is being conducted on ZOOM. I talked to Maxine in her DI theatre at Picture Shop during a break in sessions. Maxine is a Hollywood A list Colorist. Her credits include big tent pole titles amongst a list of over 60 films. She now works at Picture Shop, previously known as Technicolor. We start our...

Setyo is as he says laughing, "I'm one of three gun colorists in Malaysia" He was born in Indonesian before moving to KL. He scored a job at the Blackmagic Design Post House as a VT op and worked his way up to being a senior colorist. Setyo now runs his own Color grading shop in KL.

Chatting to Bob was the ultimate ‘going down memory lane Podcast’ for me. Having said that he also has some fantastic advice for up and coming color graders. Bob Festa has been coloring for nearly 40 years. As he says in the podcast “There is nothing I haven’t seen in front or behind me in a session, the only difference now during the Pandemic there is nothing going on behind me! Bob has worked at...

Gino is one of the leading color graders in Peru. I first met Gino when he came to my iColorist NYC class in 2012. It was great catching up again for the CT Podcast.

Juan started his first company aged 17 in Madrid, Spain. He prepped for his first color grade by reading the Mistika manual on a 5 hour car drive from Madrid to Malaga. Once in Malaga he graded his first short film and his career as a colorist was launched. 

I visited Toby at CHEAT in 2018. It is a fantastic facility situated in Hackney East London, very close to where I went to school. We checked out his facility and then went to his local pub for a pie and a pint

Walter is one of the world's leading Color graders. He has coloured over 100 features including Green Book, Star Wars The Last Jedi, and Dunkirk. Walter is currently working for Company 3.

Junbin Chen is one of the top colorists based in Singapore. This is our pre COVID-19 chat that took place at a post house called Iceberg. JB has coloured over 25 features, 20 TV series and 100s of TVCs.

Chema Alba is one of Spain’s premier color graders. Chema talks about the transition from film grader to coloring Netflix TV shows. He started out at a film scanning company. Handling film gave him the taste for colouring so he pursued the big manufactures to loan him a machine so he could practice. This showed his enthusiasm, because at the time he wasn’t a colorist and the systems were over $300...

Marc Wielage is a veteran Colorist based in Hollywood. He has been grading for 40 years and has the credits and stories to prove it. The chat starts at his shop in Hollywood before moving to legendary Hollywood restaurant Canters. Lots of people know him from the many different color forums he follows. Marc has helped many colorists at all levels, so this is a chance to get his backstory.